It is unclear whether this item is from today in 2020 in the Daily Mirror online …. or …. from 23rd November 2012
TITLE = “LTTE Leader thwarted Oslo’s Moves for a Ceasefire in 2009”
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Comprehending Covid 19 Comprehensively
Romeo F. Quijano, M.D., 3 April 2020, whose chosen title is “Origin of COVID-19: Ecological, Historical and Geopolitical Perspective”
The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that is threatening modern civilization today is a disaster that was bound to happen mainly because of human folly. This is an inevitable consequence of the dominance of a neo-liberal, national security state doctrine with a military-industrial complex pushing for perpetual war and corporate globalization. This has devastated entire ecosystems, distorted medical science and dis-empowered communities.
A computer generated representation of COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2). Credit: Felipe Esquivel Reed/Wikimedia Commons
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Covid Knowledge in California
Dr Deepthi Jayasekara, April 05, 2020in essay entitled “COVID 19-What we know now” **
The phase 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic is over and we are in phase 2 now. Phase one dealt with preparedness for the crisis which was defined in terms of health and economic consequences. Phase 2 is the reality check in the midst of actual crisis where COVID 19 is sweeping across the globe. The pandemic is unfortunately crushing dreams, lives and businesses in every country. This is crunch time for most of us except the southern hemisphere which is anxiously waiting for their winter in the months to come. Some countries are more impacted than others based on the level of preparedness to the pandemic and also because of logistic reasons. The testing for the virus is carried out or not carried out due to varying reasons per guidelines set forth by their countries. Unfortunately, the denominator for each country based on number of tests done will determine the real case fatality in the end. The final analysis of these figures will surface only after post-pandemic epidemiological studies.
Sunil Rathnayake’s Amnesty: Details and Context
C. A. Chandraprema, in Sunday Island, 5th March 2020, where the title is “Sunil Ratnayake: Politics of a presidential pardon”
A veritable caterwaul of protest has erupted from local and international NGO quarters over the presidential pardon extended to a former soldier Sunil Ratnayake, who had been convicted and sentenced to death over an incident, in 2000, when eight Tamil persons including a five-year-old child were killed in Mirusuvil in Jaffna. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said, in a statement, that the release of this individual was an affront to the victims who lost their lives in that incident. An Al Jazeera report on this matter explained that Sunil Ratnayake had been sentenced to death for ‘slitting the throats’ of Tamil civilians including four children. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, The Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, and the International Commission of Jurists have also condemned the release of this convict. Furthermore, 22 foreign funded NGOs in Sri Lanka have issued a statement saying, among other things, that the President has given his blessing to a ‘cold-blooded killer’.
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Facing Coronavid: Gota’s Middling Performance
Rajeewa Jayaweera, in Island, 5 April 2020, whose chosen title is “Empower the President to manage COVID-19″
A sizable percentage, if not the majority of the country’s intelligentsia, opposed Gotabaya Rajapaksa‘s candidacy for the Presidency. The former Secretary Defense and, subsequently, also for Urban Development, acquired a reputation between 2005 and 2015. ‘Strongman’ and ‘Dictator’ were some of his uncomplimentary nicknames. Some tried to prevent him from contesting the Presidential election on the basis; he had yet to surrender his American citizenship.
Western Covid Fever against China excoriated by Kalinga and Fair Dinkum
ONE: Kalinga Seneviratne: “COVID-19: Sinophobia Threatening to Endanger Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention” ** … https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/covid-19/3435-covid-19-sinophobia-threatening-to-endanger-strengthening-the-biological-weapons-convention
SYDNEY (IDN) – With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe and the US a bout of Sinophobia seems to have infected the western media. On March 29, Australia’s 60-minute program – that is well known for sensational reporting – broadcast a program that portrayed China as the villain of the COVID-19 pandemonium, and just stopped short of calling for war against China.
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The Covid Failures in USA from Inside a Hospital — A Lankan Physician
Gaya Kulasinghe
I thought to write a few words on FB, especially for my friends in Sri Lanka, though I have never posted my personal views on social media before. As a physician, currently working in front line, dealing with new Coronavirus pandemic in a leading hospital in USA, I have witnessed a drastic difference between USA, which believes it is a part of the first world and Sri Lanka, known as a third world country.
From Remote Wilderness to Blanket Pandemic Crisis
“Have you heard what’s happening in China? America is absolutely fucked”…. A very Kiwi way of updating someone emerging the remote mountains of NZ … Very Kiwi simple and to the point
James Johnston on his hike in New Zealand. Photograph: James Johnston
The Police State Potential in the Fight against the Covid Pandemic
Gehan Gunatilleka,whose favoured title is “Liberty in the Time of Corona” **
Sri Lanka’s police has just announced that it would arrest those who disseminate false or disparaging statements about government officials. Why is this announcement incredibly dangerous?
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